Senior Application Project Manager - Systems Integration

Position Summary

The Senior Application Project Manager leads complex enterprise application initiatives from planning through deployment, hypercare, and transition to operations. This role manages implementations, upgrades, enhancements, integrations, migrations, consolidations, and lifecycle initiatives that enable business process improvement and enterprise technology modernization.

The role partners with business stakeholders, application owners, service owners, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, procurement, finance, vendors, and delivery teams to align solutions with business objectives, enterprise standards, security requirements, and operational support models.

The ideal candidate is a senior project leader with strong application delivery expertise, disciplined execution, and the ability to drive accountability across matrixed teams. Experience supporting application workstreams for M&A integrations, divestitures, or business integrations is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of enterprise application projects, including implementations, upgrades, integrations, migrations, consolidations, replacements, and retirements.
• Experience in manufacturing or industrial systems integration preferred
• Develop and manage project plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and change control.
• Partner with business, technology, cybersecurity, infrastructure, architecture, procurement, finance, vendors, and system integrators to define objectives, requirements, solution approach, and delivery expectations.
• Drive project governance and delivery discipline in alignment with PMO standards, stage gates, approval processes, documentation, and reporting expectations.
• Facilitate requirements sessions, design reviews, planning workshops, readiness checkpoints, steering committee updates, and project team meetings.
• Coordinate implementation, integration, testing, deployment, cutover, contingency planning, go-live, hypercare, and transition-to-support activities.
• Ensure projects address enterprise standards for security, compliance, data protection, identity and access management, vendor management, licensing, supportability, and operational readiness.
• Track and manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, dependencies, and financials; escalate appropriately and drive timely resolution.
• Provide clear communication to sponsors, steering committees, business leaders, and technology leadership on project health, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, and outcomes.
• Support organizational change readiness, vendor coordination, M&A or business integration workstreams, lessons learned, and continuous improvement of application delivery practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 5-8 years of progressive IT project management, application project management, systems implementation, enterprise technology delivery, or related technology leadership experience.
• Demonstrated success leading medium-to-large, complex, cross-functional technology projects with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and leadership sponsors.
• Strong project management discipline across scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, change control, governance, executive reporting, and delivery methodologies including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, hybrid, or stage-gate.
• Strong understanding of enterprise applications, SaaS/cloud platforms, system integrations, application modernization, data flows, cybersecurity, compliance, ITSM, operational readiness, testing, deployment, hypercare, and support transition.
• Must be located in the Eastern or Central time zones and willing to travel 25% of the time domestically and internationally

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting M&A integrations, divestitures, business integrations, or post-acquisition application transition activities.
• Experience with application discovery, assessment, rationalization, migration, consolidation, retirement, or transition-to-support activities.
• Experience managing enterprise application implementations involving ERP, CRM, HRIS, manufacturing systems, data platforms, workflow tools, or other business-critical applications.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, global, or multi-site environments.
• PMP, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, ITIL, Lean Six Sigma, or other relevant certifications.